Chapter 88

France, capital Paris.

Ecole Polytechnique is located in the cultural district near the Eiffel Tower.

As one of the top three universities in France, Ecole Polytechnique brings together cutting-edge talents in various fields across the country.

At the same time, various academic journals published by Ecole Polytechnique also have a very high status and reputation internationally.

"Bulletin Mathematica", the publishing house behind this journal, is the Ecole Polytechnique.

In a plainly decorated office, Myron Dunstan made a cup of coffee, sat at his desk, and turned on his computer.

In addition to being a professor at Ecole Polytechnique, Professor Myron also has another identity - one of the review editors of "Journal of Mathematics"!

"Mathematical Bulletin", as a journal with a high impact factor among mathematics SCI journals, receives a huge number of submitted papers every day.

As a university professor, it is impossible for him to stay in the office from nine to five every day and review manuscripts like working.

Generally speaking, he spends one or two mornings a week in the office to review manuscripts.

Papers submitted to "Mathematical Bulletin" generally have to be screened by the preliminary editor, and those papers that are obviously just fake and submitted to join in the fun will be removed.

The remaining ones will be passed to the backend of Professor Myron and his reviewers.

After logging in to the account, Professor Myron directly enters the back-end paper database of "Mathematical Bulletin".

The number of unreviewed manuscripts currently displayed is 875.

"This number is really a lot!" In recent years, as the postgraduate entrance examination rates in various countries have increased, the number of people engaged in scientific research has continued to increase.

The mathematics industry is naturally no exception.

However, the resources of the mathematics community are limited. The more people engaged in this industry, the more intense the competition will naturally be.

At the top of the paper database are the submissions of several young talents in mathematics, arranged in sequence.

Compared with the small and transparent group of mathematicians, famous mathematicians naturally have certain advantages when submitting papers to SCI journals.

Because, for reviewers, the acceptance rate of papers submitted by famous mathematicians is much higher than that of less famous mathematicians!

When sorting papers, the preliminary review editor will also put those Mavericks journals at the forefront of the database so that reviewers can see them.

So when it comes to speed, those Mavericks usually receive a reply in about a week.

And those mathematicians who are not well-known will wait for a reply from the reviewer for as little as two or three months, or as long as... half a year.

Professor Myron took a sip of coffee and started working all morning.

Opening a Mavericks manuscript that has been commented by two reviewers, Professor Myron slowly reviewed it line by line.

"It can be included, but I have a few suggestions for this paper...!"

An hour later, Professor Myron finished reviewing the first paper and gave minor revisions.

Then, Professor Myron clicked on the next Mavericks paper.

Time moves slowly.

At eleven o'clock, Professor Myron stretched and rubbed his sore eyes.

In three hours, he had finished reviewing three papers submitted by Mavericks.

“Let’s finish this week’s review work after reading one more article.”

Professor Myron thought like this.

"Looking for a paper on algebraic number theory." Since Professor Myron's main field of study is algebraic number theory, for the last paper to be reviewed, he chose the direction in which he is best at.

I glanced at the top papers and found that there were no papers in the direction of algebraic number theory.

Professor Myron continued looking down.

"Recently, algebraic number theory has gone cold!" After searching through more than fifty papers, Professor Myron couldn't help but sigh.

"Here we go, this one!" Myron's eyes locked on a paper.

"Proof of Cohen-Lenstra Conjecture", Gu Lu, Hua Guo!

Professor Myron's eyes narrowed.

Chinese, and still challenging the Cohen-Lenstra conjecture?

“Interesting!”

Professor Myron opened the paper without any hesitation.

The Cohen-Lenstra conjecture does not have a very high status in the mathematics community, but it is not something that just any mathematician can challenge.

Over the past few years, many mathematicians have challenged it.

But none of them succeeded.

If there weren't other projects to do, Professor Myron would have wanted to try this conjecture.

"I finally found a paper in the field of algebraic number theory. I hope you won't disappoint me!" Professor Myron chuckled, adjusted his posture, and looked at the computer screen.

At the same time, holding a pen in hand, he verified the derivation steps described in Gu Lu's paper on the scratch paper.

Gradually, as time passed, Professor Myron held his breath and his expression became extremely serious and serious.

"Oh, the connection between these two theorems is so clever!"

"...And here, the conjecture is further simplified and extended, and the processing method is wild and imaginative, but the effect is not as good as usual!"

"Is it okay to use this method to determine the divisibility of a class of quadratic domains?... No problem, it's no problem to use it this way. I can't find any loopholes!"

While reviewing it, Professor Myron was amazed.

Unexpectedly, among a bunch of submissions from unknown mathematicians, I unexpectedly came across a paper whose quality was not inferior to those submitted by previous calf-level mathematicians.

Professor Myron read Gu Lu's paper for two hours.

Professor Myron didn't wake up until he felt the feeling of hunger in his belly.

Professor Myron clicked on his mailbox, pondered for a moment, and typed the next line, as a reply to Gu Lu's paper, "The proof process is correct and can be included directly!"

Cohen-Lenstra conjecture...proven!

Professor Myron felt like he was in a trance.

Because this matter was verified by him personally!

Gu Lu!

A Chinese name that Professor Myron had never heard of before.

But it was he who successfully proved a well-known conjecture that had existed for several years in the field of algebraic number theory.

Although the proof of the Cohen-Lenstra conjecture cannot set off a big storm in the entire mathematical world.

But it is enough to stir up quite a stir on the calm lake of algebraic number theory.

Professor Myron first contacted the other two reviewers of "Mathematical Bulletin" and asked them to complete the review work of this paper as soon as possible, and then have this paper published as soon as possible.

Then he made another phone call.

"Denton, my old friend, I didn't bother you!"

"Myron, I just finished lunch and have to go back to the office to work. What can I do?"

"I heard you said some time ago that two of your students are working together to conquer the Cohen-Lenstra conjecture, right?"

"That's right. Both of them are doctoral students who graduated from Imperial College in 2014. They started the project at this time last year. During this year, the two of them put all their energy into this conjecture and often exploded.

I stayed up all night and my energy was very low. But the results are good, which proves that the progress is already two-thirds, and I think the two of them can get it done in another three months of hard work."

"What's wrong, old man, you're asking me about this. Do you want my two students to submit their proof papers to your "Mathematical Bulletin" after completing the proof? Well... it's not non-negotiable.

!”

"No, no, no! Old man, I didn't mean that. I called because I wanted you to inform your two students that you don't need to work so hard in the future."

"???What's the meaning?"

"The Cohen-Lenstra conjecture has been successfully proved!"
Chapter completed!